Word: amicus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students who sued objected to the activities of groups such as Amnesty International, the Madison AIDS Support Network and the Campus Women's Center, and they have asked for the right to withhold their support. Several right-wing law organizations, such as the Washington Legal Foundation, have submitted amicus briefs urging the Court to end the University of Wisconsin's fee system...
...might still consider filing an amicus brief in the case, but the amicus brief would simply set out a principle," he said...
...have found that our most important role is as what lawyers call `amicus curiae', or friend of the court," he said...
...public humiliation. The perjury follows, even though the act--reprehensible though it might be--did not flow from official duty. No one should lie, but Big Brother shouldn't ask. This all comes by way of a prosecutor who before he took the appointment was ready to file an amicus brief supporting Paula Jones. Now he's her amicus, all right; the course of her case is in Starr's hands as much as anyone else...
Steiner wrote a significant portion of the renowned amicus curiae brief in Bakke, using Harvard's admissions procedure as an example of how diversity can play a role in higher education. The brief so impressed the Court that Harvard was cited in the majority decision as an example of how diversity can be used appropriately as a criteria...